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"I have a map, if anybody's lost and need information." or "I have a map, if anybody's lost and needs information."
Hello! I would like to know the reason of inversion of sentence (a), which I suppose comes from sentence (b). I wonder if it is because the subject noun phrase "an explanation...
What is the correct way to type am or pm, when it comes to time? If it's four in the morning, is it: A. 4am B. 4 a m C. 4AM D. 4 a.m. E. A.M And so on... is there a correct way...
At the start of Innocents in Paris (1952), British tourists are arriving at Paris Airport and the wonderful Margaret Rutherford is listening to a Frenchman talking ten to the dozen...
The amount of Facebook users are increasing dramatically on a daily basis. Amount. There're one or two other words whose use is criticized in English class, but the imagination...
I am my uncle's namesake. I was named after him a couple years after he died in the South Pacific in World War II. But what is my uncle to me? Posters should say where they live...
Hello If I say the Catholic priest married me in 1980 somewhere... would it be mistaken as I got married with the priest? I know in common sense, it will not be the case. Perhaps...
1)Chuck Norris=92s left and right fist are deadly weapons 2) Chuck Norris=92s left and right fists are deadly weapons It seems to me that 1)=97with fist singular=97is grammatically...
Hi ! I would like to know which is correct, or better. Or are both the same? a) The risk is likely still there. b) The risk is likely to be still there. I appreciate your comments...
A while back someone asked if we had noticed people starting their sentences with "So", and I hadn't then. But in the last few weeks on one Yahoo auto list, I have seen it. Maybe...
Have you noticed the usual bozo, plus maybe a few others, complaining that Elena Kagan is "elitist" because she attended good schools and had jhigh-level obs at good schools and...
Recently I stood corrected, when an English member of a woodworking discussion forum let me know that it's wrong to say "give a look at" in the meaning of "have/take a look at...
In the following sentence, why is the present continuous used? "The two of them are always getting into fights." And what is the difference between the sentence above and the...
I want to know, need to know how all these things work. How many commas? Posters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I was born and then...
I recently got a written note from a male colleage. It began with ' A special message to you'. The rest of the note was quite normal, though he showed his consideration. As a woman...
Hello dear friends, I witnessed an interesting usage of Present Simple which I would like you to explain. To cut a long story shorter I will say there were a group of people walking...
Strunk and White is an American publication, is it not? May a user of British English learn from it, or will he be led astray? If not, is there a British English counterpart? ...
What does it take for there to be a lynching? The M-W dictionary seems to allow for other than hanging. But my impression is that no one in the USA would consider someone who was...
A locally-made TV program of English-learning tells the would-be learners that to speak good English you must say something like "to paint the town red" instead of "to celebrate...
I'm reading a book published in 1925. The sentence is: =93He filled his lungs with the air sweeping in from the open spaces, the broad open spaces where men are men.=94 Now that...
Hi all. I ran into this book The Dog it Was That Died Does the title literally mean: "that one, which has died, was the dog"? If this is the right meaning, may I say "YOU it was...
Consider: I shall not go to Paris, nor to Rome. and I shall not go to Paris and I shall not go to Rome. Do they mean the same? (They seem to me to do so.) Is one better than the...
The soccerball World Cup is nearly upon us. The two trophies which have been used are both very ugly. The gold colour doesn't help; I think silver is best for a trophy. The first...
We were watching the BBC version of "Life On Mars" last night and Sam told The Guv something, adding that he wasn't "getting Dorothy on you." The implication was that he wasn't...